welcome to my review of the dark Rock Pro 3 from be
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learn more funny right just when you thought I was going to stop making jokes
about be quiet!'s company name ha anyway the dark Rock Pro 3 is their highest end
CPU Cooler and part of their no compromise this line of products over
and be quiet! that means maximum performance and minimum noise you can
tell that's what they were going for because it says each of these things almost half a dozen times in the
introductory paragraph on the products page so we'll start with the accessories
inside the box you'll find the massive dual heat pipe Tower itself a wide or
rather dual Tower heat pipe cooler excuse me a wide variety of solidly
Built Metal mounting bits and pieces a manual back plate some thermal compound
and a couple of very thought designed fan Clips in case the two of be quiet!'s
renowned silent Wings pwm 130 mm fans
that are included with it with anti vibration mounts and all that in case
those aren't enough for you and you really want to add a third one now on to
the good part the dark Rock Pro 3 is one of the sexiest dual Tower heat pipe
coolers I have ever encountered it's not small and mounting high-profile RAM in
slots that it overhangs is not going to happen but as dark as this product is we
couldn't expect it to be small right the wonderfully shiny base has seven heat
pipes soldered into it that run up the entire height of the towers and on our
way up we find a staggered fin design with fairly wide spacing for Optimal
Performance with lower RPM fans that's good for silence the fins themselves are
aluminum with dots on the surface for a slightly increased turbulence in surface
area and to cap it all off we find a gorgeous brushed aluminum finished top
piece Noctua as much as I love them could stand to learn a thing or two
about how to make a great looking cooler from be quiet! but it's not all about
looks so it's time for me to hand off to Luke to cover mounting and performance
analysis he truly is a mounting expert and his performance ain't bad either I
think it would be fair to say that the insulation process of the dark Rock 3
was horrific it took me quite a while to essentially give up and get lonus to
come and help me this has only happened one other time and it was for the exact
same reason I can't fit my giant fingers
under the cooler to screw it in and it doesn't have any really good way to
actually do that they do Supply you with a wrench this terrible little tiny
miniature wrench which has to be used
either improperly at an angle like this
or properly but impossibly at an angle like this which is not great if they had
a wrench that was bigger that would help in terms of overall length or if it had
some sort of angle partway through so that you could use it like this but the
actual wrench bit at the end was going flat flat along with the motherboard
that would have been fantastic they have neither of these options furthermore as
many of you know our standardized cooling procedure is to strap on knock
to a fans onto every single cooler that we use to try and standardize everything
as much as we can that was not possible with this cooler due to the fact of how
the the arms are made and how the fans are made because the mounting points for
the fans are actually uh Midway on the
frame instead of on each possible end of the frame so the the wire thing that you
use to strap the fan onto the cooler is not as long and it can't reach on a KN
to a fan I probably could have gotten the 120 mm fan to work but not the
larger fan so I decided why go halfway
and just use be quiet! fans on both original mounting points like they had
it from the beginning for our load test we have a 6870 reference running
combuster just to kind of heat up the ambience inside the case also our 4820k
is running at 1.3 volts at 4.0 GHz in
our load test while it's running Prime 95 to also heat up the cooler and that
is our load test for idle we're running the least amount of programs possible
and normally this is a very standardized test but because we don't have the noctu
a fans in it it is going to be different
than the other results on this sheet so it is has the most amount of inaccuracy
on this sheet that being said it did lose out to most things that are on the
sheet but as lonus has probably talked to you about earlier it is quite a bit
more inexpensive compared to the other ones so what do you guys think
personally the mounting difficulties are a little bit too much for me considering
I would have to have someone help me install this in my own computer which is
a little frustrating personally but again what do you guys think tell me in
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